![]() ![]() Fortunately, she has a twin brother who will lend his identity for the deception, and a childhood chum who will offer her protection once inside the ivory towers. The penalty for being detected as a male impersonator is severe. In this version of reality, women are only good for having babies and then watching maids rear them. ![]() To get into Illyria College to study with the best, she has to cross-dress as a man. So here comes Violet Adams, a female who has the effrontery not only to be interested in science but rather above average at the practical side of it. I suppose I must formally declare it to be a form of mashup in that it conflates two sources into one and then rewrites it as a steampunk novel of the Illyrian, i.e. ![]() Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, we’re off into Twelfth Night with a quick diversionary paragraph or two based on The Importance of Being Ernest by a slightly later author, Wilde by name and nature. What better source material, you may propose, than that of the old Bard himself. This is heralded as one of these rewrite jobs. ![]() Well, here comes All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen ( TOR, 2011). Get it wrong, no matter which way, and you’re in deep trouble. I have on other occasions rabbited on about the need for authors to strike a proper balance between style and substance. ![]()
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